On the first floor, at Ma Hongyu's house, she was humming a song as she deftly shredded potatoes. Her knife skills were excellent, and the potatoes were sliced very thinly, each one evenly. On the Ma family stove, pig's trotters were stewing, emitting an enticing aroma of meat.
This Ma sister-in-law is a good cook! Zhou Yuanyuan secretly praised. The aroma of the pig trotter made by Ma Hongyu made Zhou Yuanyuan's mouth water.
After looking around, Zhou Yuanyuan felt a little strange.
There were eighteen households in this residential building. Aside from three families where no one was home and Zhou Yuanyuan's own family still hadn't cooked, the meals of the other twelve families were as vegetarian as could be.
Ma Hongyu's family had a delicious stew of pig's trotters. Cheng Yuanhui's family also had a good meal, with fish and meat.
At other places, the most they would do was add a few slices of meat to their stir-fried vegetables, or bacon to their stewed taro. At two others, the lunch menu consisted simply of pumpkin, greens, and a dish of pickles.
Do people here not like to eat meat? Or are these soldiers really poor?
Zhou Yuanyuan was a little confused.
Cheng Yuanhui's house, in the kitchen.
Zhou Miaomiao's face was dark as she was scraping fish scales.
I don’t know what’s wrong with Cao Yuhua, but there was a carp among the vegetables he bought today, and it weighed two kilograms.
Growing up, Zhou Miaomiao disliked eating fish, let alone cooking it. Every time she cooked fish, the fishy odor would fill her nostrils, and fish bones would often get stuck in her throat. Over time, Zhou Miaomiao tried to avoid fish whenever possible.
But now Zhou Miaomiao is staying at Cao Yuhua's house. She can't just leave things halfway done and ask Cao Yuhua to deal with the carp himself, right?
Zhou Miaomiao seemed to have an irreconcilable hatred for the fish in her hand. While scraping it desperately, she cursed under her breath: "You still say we are relatives? What's the point of saying nice things? You are like a landlord, using me as your servant."
Zhou Yuanyuan shifted her consciousness away and stopped paying attention to Zhou Miaomiao.
Zhou Yuanyuan knew Zhou Miaomiao well. She had no idea what she was thinking. She only cared about what she had done for others, not how much others had done for her. Even if they were relatives, living in someone else's house for free, what was wrong with doing something for them?
If Zhou Miaomiao's personality wasn't so annoying, Zhou Yuanyuan wouldn't have ignored her the last time she saw her being "bought" by Yuan Sixi.
Zhou Miaomiao scraped the fish scales with her hands, feeling unhappy. Isn't this fish too fishy? Waves of fishy smell went straight into her nose.
"Ugh~ wow~!" Zhou Miaomiao finally couldn't help herself and rushed to the sink to vomit. She didn't stop vomiting until she had vomited everything in her stomach. She stopped with tears in her eyes.
"Miaomiao, what's wrong? Are you not feeling well?" Cao Yuhua had just laid down on the bed for a while when she heard Zhou Miaomiao vomiting in the kitchen and rushed out of the room.
"It's okay, it's okay." Zhou Miaomiao waved her hands, and the fishy smell in her hands caused her to vomit again.
"Miao Miao, if you have anything to say to your aunt, don't carry it alone." Cao Yuhua looked at Zhou Miaomiao with a strange look. Zhou Miaomiao looked like she was vomiting, could it be...
No, no, no! That shouldn't be the case. The child is only eighteen years old!
Cao Yuhua shook his head, shaking off the slight doubt in his heart.
After Zhou Miaomiao vomited, she washed her hands under the faucet in the sink, then raised her sleeves to wipe the tears from her eyes caused by vomiting.
Zhou Miaomiao turned around and saw Cao Yuhua staring at her with strange eyes, and her heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
Zhou Miaomiao did not tell the truth to Cao Yuhua before.
When Zhou Miaomiao met Cao Yuhua who was out shopping on the street, she called out to him and after confirming Cao Yuhua's identity, she began to perform "sad drama".
Zhou Miaomiao told Cao Yuhua that life had been tough for her family since Gu Dahua's death. With her father ill and her younger brother still young, Zhou Miaomiao had moved to City X to work to support her family. Unexpectedly, she was scammed by a job broker who took a 200 yuan fee from her but didn't find her a job. When the broker tried to leave, Zhou Miaomiao demanded a refund, but was instead assaulted. Left penniless, she ended up living on the streets.
Upon hearing this, Cao Yuhua quickly took Zhou Miaomiao back home. The chances of meeting someone from your hometown in a different place are rare, and Gu Dahua had helped Cao Yuhua in the past, a sentiment Cao Yuhua always remembered.
She was sold to Yuan Sixi as a wife by the Gu family, eloped with someone, and was taken into the devil's den by her "lover". Zhou Miaomiao never mentioned it to Cao Yuhua. It's not that Zhou Miaomiao didn't want to "sell misery", but Zhou Miaomiao didn't want Cao Yuhua to know what she had done. Each of these things represents Zhou Miaomiao's shame. What's more, Zhou Miaomiao was able to escape from the devil's den, but she still carried...
After finally arriving at a place where no one knew her, Zhou Miaomiao wanted to start a new life.
"Aunt, I'm fine. I can't stand the smell of fish since I was a child, so..." Zhou Miaomiao swallowed the saliva that rushed to her throat, and then pretended to be calm and said something.
"Ah? I'm glad you're not sick." Cao Yuhua was stunned for a moment, then quickly took the fish and knife from Zhou Miaomiao's hands and said, "Miaomiao, let me handle this fish! Your cousin-in-law likes to eat fish, and I saw some fresh fish for sale at the market today, so I picked one out. Go lie down in your room for a while."
"I'm sorry, aunt, I can't even do such a small thing." Zhou Miaomiao looked at Cao Yuhua, tears in her eyes about to flow out.
"Silly child, what's there to feel sorry for? This is what your aunt should do." Cao Yuhua comforted Zhou Miaomiao and turned around to get busy.
Cao Yuhua felt a little annoyed. If she had known Zhou Miaomiao couldn't eat fish, she wouldn't have bought it. Cheng Yuanhui liked fish, but in City X, fish was more expensive than pork. Unless it was a holiday, Cao Yuhua couldn't bear to buy fish.
She also thought that Zhou Miaomiao was in poor health, and the nutrients in fish were easier to absorb than pork!
Zhou Miaomiao walked back to her room with heavy steps. It was not quite right to call it her room. Before Zhou Miaomiao came, this room was occupied by Cao Yuhua's two sons, Cheng Mingliang and Cheng Mingli.
The Cheng family only had two bedrooms and a living room. After Zhou Miaomiao came, Cao Yuhua saw that Zhou Miaomiao was injured, so she asked her two sons to give up their rooms for Zhou Miaomiao to live in.
Cheng Mingliang is eight years old and Cheng Mingli is six years old. They sleep on the sofa in the living room at night.
Zhou Miaomiao felt the acid in her stomach still rising up her throat. She used all her strength to hold back the urge to vomit, but her heart felt like it had fallen into an icy cave. Zhou Miaomiao knew she might be pregnant.
What should she do? What if she is really pregnant? Will Cao Yuhua still take her in after knowing that she is pregnant?
No! She can't leave here!
Zhou Miaomiao lay on the bed and thought for a while before slowly sitting up.
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